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Sunday, February 28, 2016

'Nautical' from BillA - 'Sahuagin Raiding Party'

OK, OK, so these are technically "Tiik" according to the Reaper
Miniatures website, but when you show me a four-armed fish-man with a
trident, I know it's actually one of the vicious Sahuagin, deep-sea
raiders and warriors from Dungeons & Dragons, an enemy in the game
since the mid-1970s.

We've
got three "Tiik Warriors," and while I'm not in love with the sculpt
(the tiny waist and stubby tails bug me) they make decent enough mooks
for any underwater adventure. These were actually the last Bones
figures I tried painting with craft paints before switching to the good
stuff - I probably spent an hour with warm water, dish soap and a new
soft toothbrush scrubbing the old paint job off these fellows.

Next
up is the "Tiik Baron," their four-armed ruler. I like the bulldog
jowls on this figure, and the shell ornaments he's wearing are kind of
neat.

Finally,
the "Tiik Champion," which is my favorite sculpt of the bunch. With
his rounded head, lack of hard scales, different fin shape and lack of
luminescent lure, it's hard to take him as a member of the same species
as the other four. Weirdly enough, he resembles the artwork for the
"Deep Ones" in the newest edition of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, which he
predates. I wonder...

All
five of these figures were painted with the same color scheme - a
basecoat of Reaper Tropical Blue (from their new Bones paint line - I
got three bottles as samples in various orders from Reaper, which helped
decide what color these guys would be), a wash of Reaper Denim Blue,
then a highlighting drybrush of Tropical Blue. Eyes and lures are
picked out in Pale Green, and the texture of the fins brought out with a
light drybrushing of Snow Shadow. Finally, here's a group shot - ready
to conquer the hated surface-dwellers!